Recommenders are central in current applications to help the user find useful information spread in large amounts of data. Most Recommenders are more effective when huge amounts of user data are available in order to ...

Introduction: E-learning web environments, including the new TELMA platform, are increasingly being used to provide cognitive training in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) to surgeons. A complete validation of this MIS ...

Background: Cognitive skills training for minimally invasive surgery has traditionally relied upon diverse tools, such as seminars or lectures. Web technologies for e-learning have been adopted to provide ubiquitous training ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow the participation of hundreds of students who are interested in a wide range of areas. Given the huge attainable enrollment rate, it is almost impossible to suggest complex homework ...

One of the most important revolutions in the past few decades in clinical practice has been motivated by the introduction of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) techniques, which have spread amongst almost all surgical ...

The interactions that students have with each other, with the instructors, and with educational resources are valuable indicators of the effectiveness of a learning experience. The increasing use of information and ...

The provision of awareness is a well-known method for fostering students' self-reflection, a metacognitive skill often related to academic success and considered one of the key skills of the 21st century. Although the ...

This paper presents an application scenario of a rule-based recommender model (LIME) to a PSLC cognitive tutor analytics database. LIME is a recommendation model which provides a formative support to students, tutors and ...

Usability has been identified as one of the top unsolved challenges to improve a visual presentation of any type of information. The design and implementation of a visualization tool should incorporate usability by design, ...

Nascimbeni, Fabio (UNIR); Burgos, Daniel (UNIR)(International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016-12)

The paper explores the change process that university teachers need to go through in order to become fluent with Open Education approaches. Based on a literature review and a set of interviews with a number of leading ...